Earlier, you saw how Aperture stores your image's master data in its library, along with a small text file that contains a list of the edits and adjustments that you want to make to that image. To edit an image in Aperture, you select the image and then add the type of adjustment that you want to make. All of the adjustments that are currently applied to an image are shown in the Aperture Adjustments panel, which is displayed in the Inspector pane. Each adjustment appears as a brick in the Adjustments panel. For example, Figure 5.1 shows a Raw Fine Tuning adjustment, a Crop adjustment, and an Exposure adjustment. Each adjustment brick contains controls for defining the parameters of that adjustment. Figure 5.1. All of the edits and adjustments that you've applied to the current image are displayed as a stack of bricks in the Adjustments panel.Adjustments are applied in the order that they appear in the panel, and you can deactivate an adjustment by unchecking its check box. (Figure 5.1 also shows Levels and White Balance adjustments that are not currently active.) Aperture will remember the settings for that adjustment, so you can easily turn it back on later. The ability to turn an adjustment on and off provides a simple way to make before-and-after comparisons. The adjustments that you define in the Adjustments panel are stored in the .apversion files that are kept in the Aperture library. You learned about these in Chapter 3. Obviously, the Adjustments panel cannot display adjustments for more than one image. If you have multiple images selected, then the Adjustments panel will show the adjustments for the current primary select. You'll learn about all of the details of the Adjustment panel in this chapter.
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